Poll: How many mobile devices do you typically bring to the office? You could win an iPad or AppleTV

Last week I polled, What’s the one place at work where you’d like better wireless connectivity? and was honestly a little surprised by the number one answer. The second-place place where people wanted better wireless coverage was conference rooms, which makes sense. At some of the smaller companies I’ve worked at conference rooms were usually on the perimeter of the building and the coverage was poor. Even within Cisco just a few years ago, a common refrain in meetings was complaints about the spotty coverage. We knew what rooms had better connectivity, and which rooms were to be avoided. So this answer wasn’t much of a surprise.

The first place, as of this writing, was the bathroom. Almost 40% of you want better wireless coverage in your bathrooms. At work. Next time one of your colleagues wants you to help them with something on their computers or phones or tablets just think about that.

One place I hadn’t considered adding was parking lots. A few people commented on that and made me realize how often I’ve used my laptop or phone in a car. Of course, in case any of you are with the CA DMV, I’d never use them while driving. But I have often driven to a building and then wanted to shoot off a quick email before going into a meeting. Sometimes I’ll use my phone, but often I need a larger screen and will go with my computer or tablet if I brought it that day, which is rare.

So the Poll for this week: How many mobile devices do you bring to work? Think of your typical work day. Count what you consider mobile devices, and if your commute was just five steps from your bedroom to your home office – how many mobile devices do you use to get your work done?

Also! Before the poll, we have a little trivia game running now through Wednesday in our Enterprise WAN App. Did you know we have an Enterprise WAN App? It’s pretty simple, easy to use, and we’re planning to roll out occasional trivia games on it. If you know what CSR stands for or who won a Best of Interop award recently, you could win an iPad or AppleTV [Please see the T&Cs in the app for the official rules]. I encourage you to download the app on your mobile device and check it out. You can also scan the QR code to the left with your iOS or Android device and download the app from there. [If you want to type in the URL into your device’s browser it’s: http://tinyurl.com/ciscoewan]

If you carry more than 2-3 I want to hear from you – what are you bringing? Cameras? Extra phones? Extra tablets?

UPDATED August 09, 2012: Be sure to check out the follow-up Poll: How many enterprise apps do you use?If you have comments for this poll, be sure to add to the discussion of the follow-up poll discussing what types of business apps you use on all your mobile devices!

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Hi Lauren,
Maybe just a couple extra... I carry a converter lead so I can use my iPad with an HDMI lead in Hotels and also I forgot about my iPad keyboard and another audio splitter lead so I can play at DJing over my portable speakers whilst I'm working away....
Sheesh! I'm starting to convince myself I've got issues!! ;-)
Paul

Hey Paul,
Didn't mean to stress you out! :) A few months back I bought an i-device to USB cable that is basically the size of a slice of lemon and fits on my keychain. Get as many of those cables as you can in a keychain!
Remember: You don't have issues if you don't admit it ;)
-L

I usually have 1 sleek mobile phone for personal and family phone calls and sending SMS, plus 1 mobile phone for business calls, and 1 iPad for easy wifi access, entertainment, some data storage, file viewing.

I typically carry an iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, mobile hotspot, and an iPad 3. All of those are BYOD. I also carry a corporate 13" MacBook Air. I run the Mobility Services team for Cisco IT and I'm a gadget geek as well.

I actually use my Blackberry Phone, my laptop and my ipad, I use my blackberry most of the time because of the flexibility, my laptop comes into play when I needed a bigger screen and when doing some complex work while my ipad does same as my laptop but when I need to type fast I use my laptop.

I usually carry only my Iphone and have it running TV so i can access my home computer which has everything I need running on it regarding my business. Unfortunately at my work i do not have the option of connectiing to the network so i rely on my phone only.

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